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Subject: Re: new linux based chess interface ... requests

Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba

Date: 15:09:49 09/20/99

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On September 20, 1999 at 16:03:35, Hristo wrote:

>On September 20, 1999 at 10:38:33, Peter Herttrich wrote:
>
>>On September 19, 1999 at 17:16:11, Hristo wrote:
>>
>>>I started work on a new Interface for chess engines
>>>for linux (only). Currently I'm working with only two
>>>engines crafty (!) and one of my own.
>>>The application is using the Qt libraries and I'm testing
>>>it inder KDE, it is actualy called KChess. :)))
>>>PLEASE let me know what type of features would you like
>>>to see !!! The application will be absolutely free ...
>>>but I would like to know up-front what to put in it !!!
>>>
>>
>>It has to be better then xboard !?! Then u have a long way.
>>It has to be different from xboard !?! No problem. But then
>>for what?
>>How about a co-operation with Tim Mann ? I think u can integrate
>>some useful features into xboard. Read the TODO of xboard and
>>u will find many points. Only IMHO.
>>And if u need a new name: How abt K-Board?
>>K-Chess is used (see other posting).
>>cheerio
>>Peter
>
>Thanks Peter.
>K-Board it is .. :)
>I'm mainly doing this because I'm tired of XBoard ...
>it is not bad(!) and it has served many people for a
>very long time, but it has bugs that drive me nuts.
>I'll try to make K-Board(!) much more visual and easy
>to configure. Plus some additional features, like full
>pgn file support and building a database out of pgn files.
>Also implement a server/client interfaces so one can easily
>run two engines on two separate computers...
>

	Xboard can do that (look for the -firstHost and -secondHost options in the
documentation), and it is very easy, I have never had any problem using this
feature. Not a server/client interface, but definitely allows you to run two
engines on two computers.
José.

>hristo



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